The Great Inventor

1847-1931

Born: February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio

Education: None

Job: Telegraph Operator and Inventor

Marriages: Mary Stilwell (1855-1884) Mina Miller (1865-1947)

Children: Marion Estelle Edison, Thomas Alva Edison Jr., and William Leslie Edison, Madeleine Edison, Charles Edison, Theodore Edison

• Didn’t Spend a lot of time with Kids and Wife
• The “Great Inventor” never had proper education.
• Mina Edison was Nineteen years younger than Edison

Thomas Edison’s personality traits were that he wanted to be the best and be done first and wanted to have success.

• Courageous
• Competitiveness
• Ambitious

Thomas Edison is very significant to our society. Without Thomas Edison we would have had 1,093 more ideas to think of. We remember Thomas Edison by just turning on the lights knowing that without him we wouldn’t have that.

One of Thomas Edison’s biggest obstacles was actually in the margins of his family. When he was twenty-nine his Mom had gone insane, his Dad had quit his job, and the bank was going to foreclose on their house. So Thomas Edison went out and got his parents the money.

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

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